Book Reviews 



We inadvertently omitted to mention that "Minot's Modern 

 Problems of Biology," reviewed' in the January number, is pub- 

 lished by P. Blakiston's Sons & Co., Philadelphia. Price $1.25. 



The Flower Finder. George L. Walton, pp. xxvi + 394. 



J. B. Lippincott & Co. Price $2.50. 



This is another of those keys to the common plants designed for 

 the amateur. The analyses are made upon the basis of color 

 first and then leaf characters. The combination of these two 

 criteria seems to make a scheme that will be readily serviceable 

 in identifying most of the common plants. As a further aid to 

 the separation of the plants in the groups formed on the basis 

 of color and leaf character there are line drawings of practically 

 all the common plants which one is likely to meet except in out 

 of the way situations. There are also quite a number of full 

 page illustrations from photographs and these are of very superior 

 quality. The book is printed on thin paper and bound in leather 

 so that it makes a light and serviceable field book. Without 

 having had opportunity to try it in the field it wovdd seem to be 

 by all means the best manual for determining the common plants 

 for one who is not ready to work with the customary scientific 

 keys. The last seventy-five pages is given up to a series of keys 

 for determining plants by their fruits ; the scheme again depending 

 on fruit color and leaf character. 



Mother Nature and Her Fairies. Hugh Findlay. 130 pp. 



C. W. Bardeen, Publisher, Syracuse, N. Y. Price 50c. 



The attempt of this book is to tell fairy stories in which there is 

 raingled nature-study. The reviewer fails to find any nattire- 

 study. There is an attempt to tell some nature facts and these 

 are apparently accurate, but to call a few facts diluted with a great 

 deal of story nature study, is to misuse the term. The reviewer does 

 not consider himself expert in judging literary values, but so far as 

 his literary sense does go he would consider much of the poetry 

 and a good deal of the prose as atrocious. Here is a sample of 

 the verse, a squirrel is digging up some squirrel corn. 



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